On my career of teaching I have witnessed fundamental changes since the early days on the field, to today. For instance in early 1930’s for one to become a government employed teacher he/she only needed to complete undergraduate education unlike today where for one to be a recognized teacher has to have college training if not university education. That time teaching was not considered as good financial careers. You could only find few people to interview who were teachers in the 1930's since most of the schools belonged to missionaries and less parents enrolled their children. Lecturers taught all class subjects, including sports. Today, teachers are trained to teach particular subjects. Teachers had a lot of hard time since they had to walk long distance to work and no extra pay, now governments offer’s transportation means or hardship allowances. There were no unions to fight our rights, unlike modern days where we have teachers Sacco that offer loan and salary advances to teachers and also teachers unions to air their grievances.
Knowing how the career was like then has given me the courage to go on as a teacher and urge young incoming teachers to take the career seriously. Teaching is one of the most competitive financial careers. It’s also one of the most successful careers in history since not it one of the highly paid careers but also impresses the teacher when he shares the knowledge with the student.
In the past century significant advances as well as major technologies have changed the teaching career. Lessons were taught using "chalk and talk". The teacher used to write on a blackboard using chalks and lecturing the students’ modern days teachers uses laptops as well as their students, this makes it easy to pass assignment between teachers and student as well as marking and giving the results. Teachers no longer use the dusty chalks but write on special wall using refillable marker pens.
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